I've been really busy with work lately which means no time to investigate bloggable things. It's a shame because I'm doing some really interesting work with Excel, Web Services and OLAP. Maybe when it's released I'll be able to find something that doesn't give away Exony IPR.

In the meantime, I was trying to remember a time when I had nothing to do. Not just work wise - I have a permanent backlog of things I want to look into or code up. New API's, new technologies, new techniques, new books are all stacking up. Add that to the Golf Web Application I'm writing and the 200+ feeds I'm subscribed to and I think I have enough to keep me busy for the foreseeable future. I think I have a solution though - apply Scrum techniques. The backlog of things is large but the priority of individual items varies depending on an number of external forces. Sometimes they may no longer be relevant when I get around to doing them. I constantly re-prioritise anyway but having a sprint goal will help give a measure of progress and avoid being overwhelmed by the full list. Four weeks is too long for a personal process so I'll start with a single week at a time and see how things go.

As a separate note, why is Halo 2 being released in the UK two days after the US? We Brits are going to have to listen to the Yanks harping on about it for a full 48 hours - torture!